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We've never tested this Joico product but it does have a good slug of silicones so I would expect it would smooth and protect hair from heat pretty well. (It certainly won't mend split ends, however.) If you like the way it makes your hair feel - use it!

Something weird happened. Don't know what to make of this. I am finding that this "reconstructor," which is loaded with proteins, has an unintended (but nice) effect. It actually makes my fine hair look thicker. I would have thought it would be the opposite--that it would weigh my hair down. But it doesn't at all. Is it possible it's coating each hair with the proteins and making it appear thicker in diameter? I have to be careful with it, though, because it seems to make my hair stickier and I have to condition well so that combing through doesn't cause snags.

Proteins are beneficial to hair because they're film formers than can help smooth and protect. When they're hydrolyzed the proteins are chopped up into little pieces that don't really do much of anything.

Okay, thanks. This definitely seems to do something to my hair that other products with cones in them don't do, so I wonder if it's the proteins. The hair damage is still there, but less visible, and my hair feels and looks thicker, which is weird (and the opposite of what cones usually do).